Nick Thune Is a Funny, Young Comedian With Absolutely No Diseases

We asked Nick Thune about immortality and he told us this story about faking a horrible disease.

"In comedy, what you're doing is selling a story", Nick Thune says from his home in Los Angeles. "And you have to keep refreshing it." The 34-year-old actor/comedian, whose special Nick Thune: Folk Hero is on Netflix now, is one of the more promising ones on today's stand-up circuit.

There's his voice, of course, which is itself lulling as an instrument. Sincere, too, in the way of a boyhood friend. His tone, which fluctuates only when necessary, is steady as someone telling a tale by a fire. And as proven by his many late-nightappearances and gigs on Comedy Central, he's intentional about steering clear of anything formulaic. He's scraggly and likable and tosses out irreverent one liners that just connect.

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He approaches things differently, which has worked in his favor. The guy spent every marketing dollar for his special on a single billboard in central Oregon. It's ballsy moves like these that win people over. A safe comedian, I submit, is not one at all.

"I'm definitely a daydreamer", he says. "But I find that the older we get, the more that part of us dies. I'm focusing on living in the moment. As comics, we have to be in tune with the world in order to accurately dissect behavior. It's the only way we can expose the dilemma's we deal with as people."

See, we're all flawed and maybe far from our best selves. And Nick knows it. Stand-up comics, more than anyone else, can't afford to mask this even a little. And why would they choose to when it makes for the richest material? No, they put this fact — the fact about our being flawed — before us. The bestNick Thune: Folk Hero is currently on Netflix and the vinyl.